The Slips

I’ve been trolling through Geoff’s harvest of our Open Space conference last month in Melbourne and just enjoying the memory of working with friends.  Our friend and conference cartoonist Simon Kneebone drew our hosting team.  We call ourselves The Slips.  The term is from the cricket world and has two purposes.  First it signals that this is an all-Commonwealth team, which is lovely, and second, it’s a large cordon and nothing gets past us.  From right to left, our members are Anne Pattillo from New Zealand who is our wicket keeper, Aussie Viv McWaters at first slip, Johnnie Moore from the UK at second slip, Geoff Brown also from Australia at third and me on the end, occasionally moving out to gully or silly point when needed.

At any rate I love this drawing.  It bring back some lovely memories and has me salivating when we join together again in Amsertdam in September for the Applied Improv Network Conference where we will play together mostly and probably end up opening space again.